Defending the UK’s most successful industry

You have to love the Bruges Group, whose response to the financial crisis seems to be to pretend it never happened. I’ve just been invited to one of their events where:

Professor Tim Congdon will warn of the dangers posed by the EU’s unwarranted interference in the City of London, Britain’s most successful industry; which is under threat from the EU. He will discuss the EU’s latest power grab where Brussels is aiming to complete its project to take full control over financial services.

Congdon, whose loathing of David Cameron prompted him to jump ship to UKIP, must be using a different definition of success to most of the rest of us…